Broglie No. 1 / Chambrais

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B01: design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16426BRO
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale St-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: France
Location: Eure, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located 10 km from Bernay, 50 from Évreux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Noted in Turner ([ca. 1818?]): "The font is of stone, and ancient: it consists of a round basin, on a quadrangular pedestal, like many in England". The basin ia actually polygonal, quadrangular with wide chamfered angles that make it almost octagonal, with rounded underbowl that starts right below the thick upper rim, and has prominent buttresses on every other side; these buttresses continue down along the sides of the quadrangular stem [NB: this font does not seem to match Turner's description, and is certainly not typical of English fonts]. The wooden cover is flat and plain, with a flat cross on it. The label placed on the font at the church dates it to the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Turner, Dawson, Account of a tour in Normandy, II: letters addressed to the Rev. James Layton, B.A. of Catfield, Norfolk […]